Irish Wake Quotes

#1. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

#2. One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

William Blake

#3. Once you experience a major loss and survive, everything else after that you lose seems petty and doesn't affect you much.

Himmilicious

#4. My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

Martina Mcbride

#5. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?

Caryl Churchill

#6. Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Emil Cioran

#7. But let me tell you something, Harrigan - sooner or later City Hall is gonna catch up to your action, and they're gonna render unto your scofflaw holy-rollin' ass. I only hope I'm there when it happens

Stephen King

#8. She hated funeral homes with their thick carpets and elegantly appointed decor. She would much prefer an all-out Irish wake where everyone drank too much Guinness and brawls broke out. That's how the dead should be honored- with life and all of it's warts.

Elizabeth Meyette

#9. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove

Noel Gallagher

#10. All I wanted then was for everything to go on as before, so that I could stay deeply asleep, and be no more than a hole in space, not here or anywhere at all, for as long as possible, preferably forever.

Anna Kavan

#11. You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Midge Ure

#12. Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#13. I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

Stephen King

#15. I was falling for the man who had turned me. He could never know.

Heather Heffner

#16. When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar and feel its adventurous spirit. The realistic aspect of love is not that romantic.

Balroop Singh

#17. We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

Katherine Cecil Thurston